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Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages book cover

2nd Edition

Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages

Edited By Christopher Moseley Copyright 2026
928 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The  Encyclopedia of the World’s Endangered Languages  catalogues and describes the language stocks, making up the vast majority of the world's six thousand or more distinct tongues, which are in danger of disappearing within the next few decades. The concern for the fast-disappearing languages of the world continues to rise even more so and this second edition provides a thoroughly updated... Read more

Introduction to the second edition

Christopher Moseley

 

1       North America

Lyle Campbell

 

2       Latin America

Marleen Haboud

South America

General Editor: Marleen Haboud

Contributing Authors: Marisa Censabella, Mily Crevels, Fernando Garcés V., Tania Granadillo, Marleen Haboud, Alicia Matta-Gonzales, Tulio Rojas Curieux, Santiago Sánchez Moreano, Hein van der Voort, Fernando Wittig González, Lenka Zajícová

Meso-America

General Editor: Marleen Haboud

Contributing Authors: Elena E. Benedicto, Alonso Guerrero Galván, Marleen Haboud, José Daniel Rivas Hidalgo, Diana Salazar, Yaser Salinas Agüero, Elizabeth Salomón McCLean, Carlos Sánchez Avendaño, Nadiezdha Torres Sánchez, Igor Xoyón

 

3       Europe

Tapani Salminen

 

4       North Asia

Juha Janhunen and Tapani Salminen

 

5       Southern and Western Asia

Panchanan Mohanty

 

6       Africa and the Middle East

Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

 

7       The Middle East and North Africa

Charles G. Häberl

 

8       East and Southeast Asia

David Bradley

 

9       Australia

Michael Walsh

 

10    Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific

Laura Arnold

Biography

Christopher Moseley is a teaching fellow in Estonian Language at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London, UK. He is the co-editor of the Routledge Atlas of the World’s Languages and has been the editor of the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger of Disappearing.

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